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The 5 at 5 Five minutes, five stories, five o’clock…

EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you five of the biggest stories of the day.

1. #CREESLOUGH The first funerals of victims of the service station explosion in Co Donegal have taken place today.

2. #REDRESS SCEHEME Cabinet has signed off on the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme, paving the way for it to be debated in the Oireachtas.

3. #MADELEINE MCCANN The prime suspect on the toddler’s disappearance has been charged with several sex offences, German prosecutors said.

4. #RESTRICTIONS  Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has said that he does not expect the Government will need to impose restrictions over the winter, despite a rise in Covid-19 cases in Ireland and across Europe.

5. #DET COLM HORKAN A Garda cried in the witness box today as she described to a murder trial seeing a gunman firing a series of shots into her colleague as the detective lay on the ground.

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